What’s wrong with antidepressants? Five things, for starters. Studies show them being only slightly more efficacious than placebos, increasing the incidence of “suicidality,” significantly increasing the risk of death, and when taken by pregnant women, increasing the incidence of mental illness in their children. And while most of these studies were fairly recent, pharmaceutical companies have for some time not been reporting negative effects of their products.
There are a few other things. Antidepressants, well, they depress people, and they cost a lot more than exercise and cutting sugar from the diet, which work about as well as the antidepressants. The only reason you might want to take them, or recommend them to a friend, is if you would like to help boost the income of the world’s highest paid pharmaceutical and health care CEOs.
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